Hello To the people of Wa, I have been a member of fish wrecked for a few weeks now, however this is my first post.

I have been I'n wa for a couple of weeks now after driving over from Victoria and have been really fortunate to fish some great locations like walpoll and Albany. I also fished the metro area last weekend namely Brighton and city beach as well as Claremount jetty ( god damm puffers, what's the crack with them?)

Anyway my question is: As its the long weekend coming up, what are some good Land based locations approximately 2-3 hrs north of perth where I can take the camper van away and stay close to the beach to do some surf OR estuary fishing

Any local knowledge would be much appreciated
Cheers

Richard Harris

Recently I've taken my 8 and 11yo daughters fishing around the Swan River, targeting black bream around the Guildford area.

We've used bait (whole river prawns), but my 11yo saw a couple of really old lures in my tacklebox and asked to try those. I was worried she would find lure fishing frustrating and lose some enthusiasm so said "keep using bait".

She keeps asking after lure fishing and when we watch fishing TV she is always pointing out lure caught fish, so I'm going to grab a couple new lures to try.

Can anyone recommend some good lures for Bream, and some tips on how to teach a child (and me) to use them effectively? I've always just used baits, the lures I collected as part of "fishing packs" and never really got into them.

Thanks!

Hi all,

I planning a week fishing up to the north geraldton or further...

i like drive up to the north  in one day stay there around 3 days and then back home and stop somewhere for fishing.

is geraldton a good spot i like to go out with a fishing charter and catch some big ones...

any ideas ? i never been up to the north., and i dont have a 4x4

thanks

stefan

mandurah

Will be in B/D next week for a week anyone suggest anywhere i can go with the kids to catch anything really they just love to catch them.

Cheer's

Neil

Any one like to come along PM me if you are keen

Gday all,

im going up near Kabarri in about a month, just wondering if any one has fished zuytdord cliffs ?

Mite put a few days in there ???

any advise would be appreciated, cheers

Cheers

Hey all,

Were shooting upto wedge tomorrow afternoon do an all night and come back sunday afternoon, any reports from that way recently any tips or pointers, as we.ve never been there before, we got a 4x4..... so most places will be accessible for us, Is it ok to camp on the beach? fire?

Cheers folks,

I'll post a report when we get back...

Been plenty of these little guys around this summer, all 3 caught around trigg area. First one taken on a whole tailor a couple of weeks ago, second on herring last night. Thought it would be something much bigger when the drag went on that tailor bait. Cant seem to get anything bigger this year....

Seen a solid 25kg+ spaniard caught landbased in the metro area buy a woman..., i knew it would happen again....!
cant give much more details but im sure it will be seen soon..!
 

I am a reasonably new fisherman and recieved a beach rod the other week. My mate and I are planning on going to Leeman for a weekend and aren't sure on what to fish for and rig set ups. Any advice???

Hi

Does anyone know where i can get balloon gas from that comes in the small pink light weight gas bottles or any other disposible method, oh and how much they are?

thanks

Hi people, I'm going up to Cervantes this weekend (never been that far north yet  ) and was wondering what the fishing is like off the beach, and if it is better to go North or South of the town, and what times are best, morning or evening? We will be staying at the caravan park with the family.

I don't need all the fishing secrets that all of you hold so dear to your heart  just a couple of pointers !!

Thanks

Mick

Hey folks,

Just a quick report. Went up to Hill River on the weekend with plans of fishing overnight but there was a fair bit of weed around making life difficult. Still managed a couple of small tailor and a few herring. Headed over to Cervantes later in the night and fished the back beach (no luck - full of weed), jetty (snook, herring, nothing bigger about) and up at the flashing light for the rest of the night (nothing but water was pretty clean).

Went to Seabird for most of the following day and fished the main beach for a small ray - not sure what type but had a lot of blue colouring on the fins. A couple of tailor hits but missed the hookups and again the weed caused problems for much of the day.

Finished up at Pippidinny for a sundown session and no luck there. A little bit of weed around but not too bad. The beaches from there through to Club Capricorn looked pretty clean of weed so probably OK for a fish at the moment - esecially given these easterlies we have had the last few days.

Seriously....where the hell is my mulloway????? :-(

Rob

I have read a report that the sharks are pretty bad at steep at the moment

Anybody been lately that can confirm

Im goin Tommorrow

Hi Guys

I am heading down this weekend for an overnighter hopefully the winds have dropped a bit by then.

I expect there should be plety of herring/whiting and maybe some choppers around.  Has there been any Mulloway or Sharks of late?

cheers

Rig

Hi all,

A few mates and I are planning a weekend fishing down at Geographe Bay (between the ocean and bay inlet)

Just wondering whats running and some good spots to fish while we are there. Pics to follow after next weekends trip
!

Took my boys fishing last saturday, bit windy but the yougest caught plenty of herring, my oldest caught a little eagle ray and just as we were going to pack it up, his reel starts screaming, 25 minutes later we got the shovelnose on the beach, and 2 very happy little blokes!

Hi everyone here it finally is

Along with fellow forum members Johnray, Sherbert and Max199 we did a trip up to Steep point.  Kicked off sunday the 16th Jan leaving sherb's house at 9pm and had a quiet trip (traffic) up to the point dodging a few roos along the way.  Actually I should point out it wasnt that quiet over the 2 way with plenty of banter, Bulls%@t and innnapropriate jokes most of the way up but that is customary of many a good fishing trip.

Arriving at the point about 8am monday morning we set up camp in blistering heat and no sleep for over 24hrs and then to punish ourselves we moved camp after the spot we setup in front of proved to be too crowded.  By this stage Max and I i had done all the driving we thought we might take it easy and sit down with a beverage while Ray sent out a balloon and pretty quickly had 2 spaniards on the rocks.

the following day with a 4am start had us spinning up heaps of shark mackeral, tuna and other small mackies dog's spotted etc once the sun was well and truly up the spaniards came to play smashing both lures and ballooned baits most of the day and this continued day after day what a trip.

one morning I offered to swap spots with Sherbs as we put him into isolation due to his unorthodox kamikaze ballooning technique so It started off pretty quietly for me with people hooking up all around and a 3-4m arial right in front of me and Sherbs absolutely killing it on balloon.  After copping some critisism about catching 0 for the day i hooked up on a runt 7kg mackie and then noticed most of the crew were heading to the filleting table or shade as the midday sun was beating down.  So I moved back to my usual spot the wind had increased to 25+ knots and I sent out a heavy semi frozen balloon bait and worked it hard only to have it smashed for no hookup and this happened another 3 times until my bait got monstered by a big angry mackie 1m out of the water and probably in the top 2 strikes I have ever seen.  After about a 15 min battle i had it cliff side and gaffed by Johnray and much to my delight It was a spaniola estimated 25-28kg.  After seeing this the boys were sending balloons out left right and centre and nabbed a couple more but I relaxed for the day with a beer knowing it had made my trip.

The following day the weather changed and we fished a different spot for not too much and I was 10m from spooled on a fish that liked my lure and wasnt coming back which means I probably need to think about upgrading my spin combo.  Sherbs nailed a few pinkies when everyone was sleeping at 2am but there are no photos so draw your own conclusions lol we had out trip limit and didnt need them.

Higlights of the trip

Max caught the best spaniard spinning about 18kg

Me best spaniard on balloon 25-28kg

Johnray attempting the world landbased game record time on a 10kg long tail tuna....... It punished him for about 45 minutes

Cupcake most sleep on the trip.

Sherbs for nearly getting spooled on a 50tw by a fish that was called for a mackie but turned out to be a NW blowie

Johnray and Max for the gorrillas in the mist re-enactment (shower time on the cliff)

Johnray for filleting everything on his custom made filleting table 

These are some photos I am allowed to use by sherbs as he has bigger plans for the good quality ones so I apologise for any blood,poor quality etc

Looking for one, Must be able to get to my house  PM only 

Hey All,

I'm thinking about heading up to Club Capricorn with some friends this weekend. I was thinking of diog some landbased fishing for tailor and small bities... but I have been hearing that the beach there is totally weeded out. Does anyone know if this is still the case? Should I not bother..?

Hi Guys.

Anybody got any website links to the tracks and fishing spots in West Cape Howe???

OR pics from fishing expaditions down there.

Particularly interested in "The Steps"

Precious little turns up on Google.

Have been told about great fishing at the steps over the last 5 years.I last went to Albany 2 years ago,it was on the cards to fish there but ended up having to rescue a workmates vehicle from Bornholme on the day the weather was best to fish there,after that we got the normal south coast crappy weather.

The same said ex workmate has been fishing there with another workmate,a few weeks ago and last weekend,they managed a Queenie last weekend(the pair of them couldnt manage to buy a fish in a fish mongers emporioum!!!!)

Would like any info,Im ready to visit the south coast again.

Andrew

Hi Guys.

Looking at purchasing a cliff gaff for fishing the South Coast.

Have tried Big Fishing Conmen,Ranger and Rays Out there without any luck.

Anybody know any tackle shops that stock them??? More than happy to support a Fishwrecked Sponsor,over the big shops no end.

Any idea of the cost????

Andrew

The big boy 28kg of fish

Bag out in 4 days 30 spanish mackerel between the camp

A great time was had by all, Great weather but very hot so lots of drinking

Sorry guys no photos yet ,Saving them for something special

Hi all im new to fishwrecked and have been looking around the forums and its great to see the amount of info you get from everyone.

I have only just got back into fishing as i have not been fishing since i was younger but do enyoy it and have been fishing around rockingham on the jettys and beach fishing.

Just wondering as im due to get back from work on wed whats the fishing been like down rockingham to dawsville way, was average a couple of weeks ago when i was home.

cheers

         Dan.

Did a search but couldn't find any thing that directly addresses my questions.

Gday

we're going up to Jurien towards the end of next week but cant take the boat up as we have to tow a trailer. without the boat im going to have to find something else to do during the day! does anybody know of any spots that work well throughout the day, for anything like whiting, tailor, herring etc.

Cheers

Steeppoint HERE we come, [Hope the fish] NO SORRY-----  The fish will be biteing

Got one seat going if anyone would like to come fishing to the north beachs

Reef boots or runners, And a early start

Pm me I will look again at 7 pm

hi 

i like go to the south for a camping fishing trip next weekend. 

the only jetty i know is in busselton and still closed is there any other jetty in the south ? 

or where i can go catch some fish from the rocks ? 

thanks 

cheers 

stefan